Vejen Municipality

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| subdivision_name1 = Southern Denmark

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Vejen Municipality ({{langx|da|Vejen Kommune}}) is a kommune in the Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 817 km², and has a total population of 42,800 (2024). Its mayor is Frank Schmidt-Hansen, representing the Conservative People's Party..

The municipality is part of Triangle Region and of the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.{{cite web|url=https://www.trekantomraadet.dk/kulturmetropol/|title=Vi er landets mest ambitiøse business region|publisher=trekantomraadet.dk|access-date=15 January 2019|language=da |trans-title=We are the country's most ambitious business region}}{{cite web|title=Tal og statistik|trans-title=Figures and Statistics|url=http://www.byregionoestjylland.dk/Statistik.html|publisher=Byregion Østjylland|access-date=25 April 2016|language=da}}

The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Vejen. One of the attractions of the area is the Vejen Art Museum.{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Museumsv%C3%A6sen/Kunstmuseer/Museer,_Danmark/Vejen_Kunstmuseum|title=Vejen Kunstmuseum|encyclopedia=Den Store Danske|access-date=23 November 2014 |language=da}}

History

On 1 January 2007 Vejen municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with Brørup, Holsted, and Rødding municipalities to form an enlarged Vejen municipality.

Locations in Vejen Municipality

class="wikitable" style="margin-right:1em"
Vejen	align="center"\| 9,800
Brørup	align="center"\| 4,500
Holsted	align="center"\| 3,100
Rødding	align="center"\| 2,600
Jels	align="center"\| 2,000
Askov	align="center"\| 1,900
Skodborg	align="center"\| 1,300
Bække	align="center"\| 1,000
Gesten	align="center"\| 950
Store Andst	align="center"\| 800

Politics

Vejen's municipal council consists of 27 members, elected every four years. The municipal council has nine political committees.{{cite web |title=Byråd og politiske udvalg |url=https://vejen.dk/politik/byraad-og-politiske-udvalg/ |website=Vejen Kommune |access-date=10 September 2023 |language=da-DK}}

=Municipal council=

Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.

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! rowspan="2"| Election

! colspan="10"| Party

! rowspan="2"| Total
seats

! rowspan="2"| Turnout

! rowspan="2"| Elected
mayor

style="background:#B5211D;"|Social Democrats (Denmark)

|style="background:#89A920;"|Conservative People's Party (Denmark)

|style="background:#004450;"|New Right (Denmark)

|style="background:#C9096C;"|Socialist People's Party (Denmark)

|style="background:#1CB1B7;"|Liberal Alliance (Denmark)

|style="background:#8B8989;"|{{tooltip|2=Lokallisten|{{font color|white|L}}}}

|style="background:#8B8989;"|{{tooltip|2=Liberal Borgerliste|{{font color|white|L}}}}

|style="background:#F4D44D;"|Danish People's Party

|style="background:#254C85;"|Venstre (Denmark)

|style="background:#FF0000;"|Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)

2005

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="4"|

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="2"|

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="4"|

|14

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="3"|

|rowspan="5"|27

|70.4%

|rowspan="4"|Egon Fræhr (V)

2009

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="4"|

|11

|67.2%

2013

|12

|72.5%

2017

|10

|71.9%

2021

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" |

|68.3%

|Frank Schmidt-Hansen (C)

colspan="16"|Data from [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2005/adk.htm Kmdvalg.dk 2005], [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2009/adk.htm 2009], [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2013/Default.htm 2013], [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2017/KMDValgKV.html 2017] and [https://kmdvalg.dk/KV/2021/K84733575.htm 2021]

References

Sources

Municipal statistics: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070812152043/http://www2.netborger.dk/Kommunefakta/ NetBorger Kommunefakta], delivered from [http://www.kmd.dk/ KMD] aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
Municipal mergers and neighbors: [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011050224/http://kommune.eniro.dk/danmarkskort/ Eniro new municipalities map]

External links

{{Official website|http://www.vejenkom.dk|Municipality's official website}}
[http://www.vejenkunstmuseum.dk/English/frame%20proeve.htm Vejen Art Museum]

{{Geographic location

| Centre = Vejen

| N = Billund

| NE = Vejle

| E = Kolding

| S = Haderslev

| W = Esbjerg

| NW = Varde

}}

Category:Municipalities of the Region of Southern Denmark

Category:Municipalities of Denmark

Category:Populated places established in 2007